How often do you change your oil?
#11
03-03-2007, 01:06 AM
RE: How often do you change your oil?
just to clarify, when you guys are saying 5k, youre referring to miles correct....just so im clear because im talking km's
#12
03-03-2007, 01:13 AM
RE: How often do you change your oil?
I'verebuilt motors that havesludged up using synthetic oil at 5000 mile intervals at work, that's why I go 2000 miles (and I like to run my car hard through the gears).
#13
03-03-2007, 01:50 AM
RE: How often do you change your oil?
castrol syntec 5w40, large filter every 4k... no sludge problems
#14
03-03-2007, 01:51 AM
RE: How often do you change your oil?
ORIGINAL: unorthodoxa4
just to clarify, when you guys are saying 5k, youre referring to miles correct....just so im clear because im talking km's
just to clarify, when you guys are saying 5k, youre referring to miles correct....just so im clear because im talking km's
tractioncontrol, is the sludging problem really that bad? I may go down to 3k miles if that's the case. I want my engine healthy!
#15
03-03-2007, 01:56 AM
RE: How often do you change your oil?
I don't work on Audi's. There is currently a recall one 1 specific Toyota motor that has had sludge problems, to have it rebuilt under warranty customers have to provide proof that they have had the oil changed every 5000 miles or less and I have rebuilt 6 of them now in the last 3 months.
#16
03-03-2007, 02:05 AM
RE: How often do you change your oil?
thats the thing, ya it gets pricey to change it every 3000miles or 5000km, but its the best preventative maintenance so in the long run i guess its worth it
#17
03-03-2007, 02:09 AM
RE: How often do you change your oil?
wow, toyota rebuilds the motors...
audi would just throw another one in there
audi would just throw another one in there
#18
03-03-2007, 02:11 AM
RE: How often do you change your oil?
you have to assume that with regular oil changes these yota's are being beat to crap for them to blow....those motors should be fairly solid to begin with
#19
03-03-2007, 02:29 AM
RE: How often do you change your oil?
Toyota blocks are lazer cut and don't get honed. I tear down a sludge motor clean it up, rering it and put in all new gaskets, lifters and springs. I have seen 150,000 mile sludge motors with the cross hatching still there, not a drop of oil came out of the motor but still no damage done to the cylinder walls or anything else. If there is scoring a new motor is put in.
#20
03-03-2007, 02:40 AM
RE: How often do you change your oil?
ORIGINAL: unorthodoxa4
that doesnt make any sense...the power increase with a chip is not enough to automatically put excessive load on the motor under normal driving conditions.
that doesnt make any sense...the power increase with a chip is not enough to automatically put excessive load on the motor under normal driving conditions.
